Re: Amouage Ciel for Him

Unfortunately, the version I smelled a couple of years ago smelled much worse than Le Male. A most boring "fresh" sporty masculine. Luca Turin's positive review does not correspond to the current stuff and must refer to a long gone version. Yet another ruined perfume from Amouage.

Re: Amouage Ciel for Him

Originally Posted by cacio

Unfortunately, the version I smelled a couple of years ago smelled much worse than Le Male. A most boring "fresh" sporty masculine. Luca Turin's positive review does not correspond to the current stuff and must refer to a long gone version. Yet another ruined perfume from Amouage.

I wonder what Ciel smelled like prior to its reformulation (if, indeed, Ciel really was reformulated--maybe this was just another left-field review my Monsieur Turin).

Re: Amouage Ciel for Him

Turin wrote, favorably, that it smells urinous, and cites Jules. What I smelled is nothing of the sort, so there must have been a reformulation, which unfortunately seems to have happened to many Amouages (Gold, Ubar, Homage, etc)

Re: Amouage Ciel for Him

No similarity to Le Male that I can discern.

More of an aromatic fougere along the lines of GIT and MPG Garrigue, but with that slightly funky moist note Turin mentions in the opening. It's not one of my favourite Amouges but quite interesting if you like that genre, less obviously squeaky clean 'n green crowd pleaser than the more commercial ones.

Re: Amouage Ciel for Him

More of an aromatic fougere along the lines of GIT and MPG Garrigue....

See, I don't get the GIT parallel.

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Originally Posted by cacio

Turin wrote, favorably, that it smells urinous, and cites Jules. What I smelled is nothing of the sort, so there must have been a reformulation, which unfortunately seems to have happened to many Amouages (Gold, Ubar, Homage, etc)

cacio

I should probably start a new thread on Amouage reformulations. Gold woman smelled fantastic last time I tried it. What did it smell like before?

Re: Amouage Ciel for Him

Gold woman and Ubar still smell good, but they were much bigger before. Gold woman opened with an aldehydic blast followed by an explosion of all types of flowers. The current version is smaller in size and more concentrated on white flowers, with less jasmine and a sort of woody ambery deep drydown that I don't like. Ubar was an enormous lactonic floral oriental; now it's still grand but less so. Homage seems to vary across batches, the latest I smelled was a thin neroli with apparently not much else.